Happy Veterans Day 2012

Veterans Day is an annual United States holiday honoring military veterans. A federal holiday, it is observed on November 11. It is also celebrated as Armistice Day or Remembrance Day in other parts of the world, falling on November 11, the anniversary of the signing of the Armistice that ended World War I.

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paul52

May God bless all our veterans. May the govt. allow them to vote in the future. Thanx, Barry, for their disenfranchisement. We owe the vets more than we can ever repay.

Sasja

It is a lovely poem and I know what the good Father was trying to impart. However, we get our unalienable rights from God. Our warriors, through their blood and sacrifice, are the standard bearers. The heroes who put it all on the line to keep our Flag flying over this Republic.

“Lord, hold our troops in your loving hands. Protect them as
they protect us. Bless them and their families for the selfless
acts they perform for us in our time of need. Please place a
hedge of protection around each and everyone. I ask this in
the name of Jesus, our Lord and Savior. Amen.”

A few years ago my cousin, a Nebraska historian, showed me a building which yet stands today. It was a one room schoolhouse back in its time. He explained to me how our common great grandfather had ridden up to the schoolhouse, some ninety four years ago, on horseback to announce to the children: “Its over, those silly Europeans have finally sorted things out”. Sadly, it was far from over. It had, in fact, only just begun. But who could have guessed, then, that an obscure Austrian corporal would ignite the world just two decades later, and the long conflicts which would come after.
The fight goes on still. The world is utterly re arranged but the game remains the same.

Thank you to all who have served and for those who continue to serve to defend this country and to keep us free and safe. We owe you so much. God bless all of you.

Ghost

Zell Miller-D (former Georgia Governor who was appointed by successor Republican Governor to fill-out the term of deceased Republican Senator, Paul Coverdell and obtw, a United States Marine) speaking at the 2004 RNC, Keynote Address! – compare to Krispy Kreme, 2012

excerpt:

Never in the history of the world has any soldier sacrificed more for the freedom and liberty of total strangers than the American soldier.
And, our soldiers don’t just give freedom abroad, they preserve it for us here at home.

For it has been said so truthfully that it is the soldier, not the reporter, who has given us the freedom of the press.
It is the soldier, not the poet, who has given us freedom of speech.
It is the soldier, not the agitator, who has given us the freedom to protest.
It is the soldier who salutes the flag, serves beneath the flag, whose coffin is draped by the flag who gives that protester the freedom he abuses to burn that flag.

No one should dare to even think about being the Commander in Chief of this country if he doesn’t believe with all his heart that our soldiers are liberators abroad and defenders of freedom at home.